beef up

英 [biːf ʌp]

美 [biːf ʌp]

增加; 加强; 改进; 提高

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 改善；加强；改进；提高
  If youbeef upsomething, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
  1. ...a campaign to beef up security...
     加强安全的运动
  2. Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
     双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
  3. ...a beefed up police presence.
     有所增强的警力

英英释义

verb

• make strong or stronger
  1. This exercise will strengthen your upper body
  2. strengthen the relations between the two countries
  Synonym:strengthenfortify

双语例句

• They decided to beef up the baseball pitching staff by getting new men.
  他们决定征选新人，来增强棒球队的投手群。
• Mr Obama has called for member countries to beef up the IMF to help it combat the global downturn.
  奥巴马呼吁各成员国为imf增资，以帮助其对抗全球衰退。
• We must beef up the army with new young people.
  我们必须招募年轻的新兵以强化军队。
• In the future I would love to beef up my sales experience.
  以后我希望能增加自己的销售经验。
• He added if he himself does not have time to write, he might use a recorder to record his own life for someone else to prepare the scripts and beef up, and it will be in both English and Chinese.
  他补充说，如果他自己没有时间写，他可能用录音机录自己的生命为别人准备的剧本和牛肉，并会以英文和中文。
• It was unclear what steps Beijing planned to take to beef up its internet security.
  目前还不清楚中国方面计划采取哪些步骤来加强互联网安全。
• It demonstrates China's ambition to beef up overseas oil supplies.
  它展现了中国增强海外石油供应的雄心。
• Both sides are still beefing up their military strength.
  双方仍在增强各自的军事力量。
• I think I can beef up the reception a bit.
  我要增强一下信号接收。
• It's an easy way to beef up your r é sum é and make yourself more marketable.
  这是增强自己的简历、让自己更畅销的一个简单的方法。